the end

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ðiː ɛnd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ði ɛnd/

Phrase

the end

1. Used traditionally at the end of a story or film.
   • 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Alice’s Evidence”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 192:

     Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; […] remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
     the end.

2. Used to indicate the termination of something.
   • 2007, Kathryn M. Hilton, Artificial Intelligence Is Fun!: Conversations with a Computer, page 240:

     I have no idea where this conversation is going. Shall we head it off the page and say this is The End.

Translations

end of a story or film

• Arabic: النِهاية (nihāya)
• Armenian: վերջ (hy) (verǰ)
• Bulgarian: край (bg) m (kraj)
• Catalan: fi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 劇終／剧终 (zh) (jùzhōng)

• Czech: konec (cs)
• Danish: slut (da)
• Dutch: einde (nl)
• Egyptian: (jw.f pw), (jw.s pw)
• Esperanto: fino (eo)
• Estonian: lõpp (et)
• Finnish: loppu (fi)
• French: fin (fr) f
• German: Ende (de) n
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃 m (andeis)
• Greek: τέλος (el) n (télos)
• Hebrew: הסוף
• Hungarian: vége (hu)
• Indonesian: tamat (id)
• Irish: nel
• Italian: fine (it) f
• Japanese: 終わり (ja) (おわり, owari)
• Latin: ācta est fābula, plaudite!
• Latvian: beigas
• Laz: ბოლოშა (bolosha)
• Lithuanian: baigtis
• Malay: tamat (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slutt m

  Nynorsk: slutt m

• Polish: koniec (pl)
• Portuguese: fim (pt) m
• Romanian: fine (ro)
• Russian: коне́ц (ru) m (konéc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крај m

  Roman: kraj (sh) m

• Slovak: koniec (sk) m
• Spanish: fin (es) m
• Swedish: slut (sv)
• Tagalog: wakas

See also

• fin
• game over

Anagrams

• endeth, thneed